Our previous debugger, a hard debugger, worked on Linux/x86
systems but was very hard to port to new platforms and to
other operating systems. With our new soft debugger we can
debug Mono applications running on Windows, helping developers
test before moving to Linux.

Faster Transfers

When you are developing large applications or web
applications, you want your turn around time from the time
that you run hit Run to the site running on Linux to be as
short as possible.

Cheap Shot Alert: When dealing with large web sites, we
used to behave like J2EE: click run and wait for a month for
your app to be loaded into the application server.

This is no longer the case. Deployments that used to take
30 seconds now take 2 seconds.

Support for Visual Studio 2010

Our plugin now supports the Visual Studio 2010 new features
for plugin developers.

This means you get a single .vsix package to install, no
system installs, no registry messing around, no dedicated
installers, none of that.

The full plugin installs in 3 seconds. And you can remove
it just as easily.

Then you can just from VS's Mono menu pick "Run In Mono"
and pick whether you want to run locally or remotely.

We now also support multiple profiles, so you can debug
from Visual Studio your code running on Linux boxes, Mac boxes
or your local system.

Polish and more Polish

MonoTools was our first Windows software and we learned a
lot about what Windows developers expected.

We polished hundreds of small usability problems that the
community reported in our last few iterations. You can also
check
our release
notes for the meaty details.

Appliances

And we integrate directly with SuseStudio to create your
ready-to-run appliances directly from Visual Studio.